Re: How to get all arguments to a call function

[Michael Stahl]

On 17/05/2011 17:00, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> According to "8.6 The call Function" of the manual, I can use $(1) to
> get a particular argument. But what if I want to get all the
> arguments, or the 2nd, 3rd,..and so on arguments. Are there special
> variables for these?

the 2nd etc. argument is just $(2), $(3) and so on.
AFAIK there is no way to get _all_ arguments except explicitly enumerating
them:
$(1) $(2) $(3) $(4) $(5) $(6) $(7) $(8) $(9)

of course if somebody calls this with ten arguments the last one will get
lost, but personally i haven't ever needed so many arguments...

if you just have several things that are of the same "kind" to pass into a
function, try to pass it as a single argument that is a space-separated list.

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